Filing Reveals Why Feds Named Heinrich POI In Wetterling Case

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – New details have emerged as to why law enforcement believe Danny Heinrich, who is facing trial on child porn charges, was in fact the person responsible for the unsolved abduction of Jacob Wetterling.

On Wednesday, a court filing, which argues against efforts to move the child porn case out of Minnesota, says that in 1989 "investigators developed compelling circumstantial evidence" linking Heinrich to Wetterlings's abduction. Heinrich was also linked to other unsolved sexual assaults on boys in the area, including the 1989 abduction of then 12-year-old Jared Scheierl of Cold Spring.

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The filing provides the full details of the description Scheierl gave of his attacker, which includes a height of 4'6" to 5'7" and "fat ears that stuck out," a fat nose, bushy eyebrows, broad neck, and crooked bottom "cheese teeth."

In July of 2015, new DNA tests matched Heinrich to Scheierl's case.

Heinrich is scheduled to go to trial in July on 25 counts of possessing and receiving child pornography.